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Commit e3da574a authored May 18, 2009 by Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville May 20, 2009

cfg80211: allow wext to remove keys that don't exist



Some applications using wireless extensions expect to be able to
remove a key that doesn't exist. One example is wpa_supplicant
which doesn't actually change behaviour when running into an
error while trying to do that, but it prints an error message
which users interpret as wpa_supplicant having problems.

The safe thing to do is not change the behaviour of wireless
extensions any more, so when the driver reports -ENOENT let
the wext bridge code return success to userspace. To guarantee
this, also document that drivers should return -ENOENT when the
key doesn't exist.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 73606d00

include/net/cfg80211.h

+3 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -781,10 +781,11 @@ enum wiphy_params_flags {
		* @get_key: get information about the key with the given parameters.
		* @mac_addr will be %NULL when requesting information for a group
		* key. All pointers given to the @callback function need not be valid
		* after it returns.
		* after it returns. This function should return an error if it is
		* not possible to retrieve the key, -ENOENT if it doesn't exist.
		*
		* @del_key: remove a key given the @mac_addr (%NULL for a group key)
		* and @key_index
		* and @key_index, return -ENOENT if the key doesn't exist.
		*
		* @set_default_key: set the default key on an interface
		*

net/wireless/wext-compat.c

+7 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -504,6 +504,13 @@ static int cfg80211_set_encryption(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
		else if (idx == wdev->wext.default_mgmt_key)
		wdev->wext.default_mgmt_key = -1;
		}
		/*
		* Applications using wireless extensions expect to be
		* able to delete keys that don't exist, so allow that.
		*/
		if (err == -ENOENT)
		return 0;

		return err;
		} else {
		if (addr)